These are the Read-Only HFS+ drivers that comes with Boot Camp. They can be installed on any matching Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 machine without the need to install the Boot Camp package (and also easily removed if necessary). Technically v6.0 should work on Vista/7/8 but it has not been.
- Well, I've rebooted Windows quite a few times since getting rid of MacDrive, including the 1.5 bazillion updates that Windows had released in the last couple weeks when I was ignoring them, many of which needed restarts, and one big one that did multiple restarts during the update, plus all the HFS-driver-changing, and I just checked all my HFS drives with DiskWarrior and everybody is still a.
- Next, we need to install the packages that will give our Raspberry Pi the ability to read HFS Plus formatted drives. Also in allowing us to mount and read from HFS Plus drives, the packages we install will enable us to format drives in the HFS Plus format. Install all the HFS packages we need by running the following command.
Discs, USB sticks and other external media initialized in extended Mac OS format (HFS or HFS +) will work to the best of their ability on macOS systems, but on different operating systems (such as Windows), they will be inaccessible. If you have a portable hard drive used in your Mac and you want to read it on Windows computers, it's not impossible. If you continue reading, you will see that there are various methods to 'force' the reading of these media even on non-Apple machines. Read on to find out how to read Mac discs on PC.
How to read Mac disks on PC: HFS and HFS+
There are various possibilities for reading an external HFS formatted disk on a Windows PC. In fact, there are several utilities, both free and paid, that allow you to make HFS disks visible on Windows, thus allowing you to work comfortably with the files on Mac disks. Below, I'll show you the best currently in circulation.
Paragon HFS + for Windows
HFS + for Windows is a utility for Windows 7 and later that allows you to read discs initialized as HFS + on your PC. The driver installs very simply and allows you to read and write partitions, disks, CDs, DVDs and other media initialized as HFS +.
Mount Hfs+ Windows
Connect android to pc windows 10. HFS + disks will be fully accessible in My Computer or from the Windows Disk Management console, without having to install additional tools.
HFS + for Windows works with Windows 7 and later. You can still download a demo version on the developer's website, which can be used for 10 days.
Mediafour MacDrive
Also this application, called Mediafour MacDrive, allows you to access Mac formatted HFS or HFS + disks from Windows PC.
Read Write Hfs On Windows 10
The standard version of the program costs $49.99. In addition to the standard version, a 'Pro' version is also available that provides read/write support for Apple RAID disks, as well as implemented improvements to achieve better read/write performance. RAID functionality allows access to RAID sets of Mac disks prepared with Disk Utility and supports striped, mirrored, or six chained disks. In Windows XP, however, RAID disks larger than 2TB cannot be mounted due to intrinsic limitations in the operating system; no problem with Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Both the Standard and Pro versions of Mediafour MacDrive can be downloaded from the developer's website, which can be used for 5 days.
HFS Explorer for Windows
If the two solutions that I showed you before seem too expensive, then the best solution for you will be HFS Explorer. It is a free utility – also compatible with Windows 10 – which allows access to initialized media such as HFS (Mac OS Standard), HFS + (Mac OS Extended) and HFSX (Mac OS Extended with a difference between lower and upper case).
It presents itself as a file manager from which to browse and extract files (copy them to a different disk), display information, including details on file-images in dmg/sparsebundle format. Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) version 5.0 or later is required for installation. You can download the application by clicking on this link.
With this other guide, we want to help you find out how to write NTFS disks on Mac.
Presentation
MacDisk is an utility for reading, writing and formatting Apple Macintoshmagnetic media on an IBM compatible PC, without any hardware modification ofthe computer and without any add-on.
MacDisk is a 32-bit application and runs under all recent versions of Windows(Vista and 7/8/10 included, even 64 bits).
Supported Media
- HD (High Density) floppy disks (1.44 MB),
- Plain hard disks without any capacity limit (see also our page onDisk Interfaces and on Hugedisks). Caution, Thunderbolt disks are not supported yet.
- CD-ROMs, pure HFS, hybrid (HFS/ISO 9660) and evenISO 9660 CD-ROMs with Apple extensions
- DVD-ROMs, which are in fact just huge CD-ROMs
- Iomega Zip cartridges, 100 and 250 MB
- Iomega Jaz removable disks, 1 and 2 GB
- External hard disks connected on the USB or FireWire (IEEE 1394) bus
- SyQuest cartridges, all capacities
- Bernoulli disks, all capacities
- USB media (keys, drives, token)
- Magneto-optical cartridges of 128 and 230 MB (3.5') and of 300, 350, 600, 650 MB (5.25').
Macintosh CD-ROMs are managed as read-only volumes. If you want to createMacintosh CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs on your PC, please checkMacImage.
All kinds of Zip cartridges are supported(be it on SCSI bus, on USB bus, on IDE/ATAPI bus or on the parallel port).
Under Windows 2000 and higher, we don't use the Aspi layer any more, but a servicelaunched under the local system. See the MacDisk datasheet and the Lsdiorw page.
File System Compatibility
MacDisk manage the old HFS volumes (classical magnetic Macintosh media)and the recent HFS+format (also called Extended Mac OS, journalled or not).
MacDisk, when launched from a Windows partition created by the boot managerBootcamp on a Macintosh with Intel processor, can access the Macintosh partitionto copy files back and forth. Hard drive exfat format.
Why MacDisk?
MacDisk is aimed at all users needing to exchange data files between theMacintosh and the PC.
MacDisk is an indispensable tool for data exchanges between sibling applicationsthat exist in both Macintosh and PC (Windows) versions, like MS-Word, MS-Excel,PageMaker, Quark Xpress as well as transfering compatible data formats (Ascii,graphical files).
To get a better understanding of MacDisk features, you can download theHelp File.
MacDisk Version 8.0
MacDisk is a 32-bit program. The latest version for Windows 2000 and higher addsmany new functions: it now supports all CD-ROM drives (SCSI, USB, IDE/ATAPI),all kinds of CD-ROMs (HFS, HFS+, hybrid, even multi-session ones). The 32-bitversion is much faster than former ones. For an example, a 80-MB file is copiedfrom the CD-ROM drive to the hard disk in less than a minute!
More, the new interface offers an Explorer bar to navigate the Macintosh volumeand a listview which allows to sort the items according to the name, to the type,to the data or resource length, to the creation/modification date and to thesignature.
This feature is very interesting, for an example if you get an USB token withboth Word and Excel files. A sort according to the signature will allow you tocopy selectively the Word files in a specific subfolder and the Excel files inanother one. Likewise, if you do DTP, you'll be able to copy selectively theTiff pictures, the EPS files and the layouts.
See our Preview Page on its newfeatures and its new user interface (with numerous screen captures).
And What About DD Floppy Disks?
MacDisk cannot read Apple Macintosh DD (400 KB or 800 KB) floppy disks.Apple chose to implement the GCR coding (Group Coded Recording) witha variable spindle speed to squeeze more data on the outer tracks of the medium.There are no software solutions to mimic that on the PC, and the existing hardware solutions become more and more of 'historical nature' (Central Point Option Board DeLuxe, Apple external floppy drive connected to a MicroSolution controller).
However, I recently learned that one of those cards is still available: theCatweasel board can read DD imageswith a normal PC-floppy (connected to it) as well as many other formats.
For the time being, the only practical solutions is to find a working Macintoshwith a floppy drive to copy the files onto another floppy (HD) or anothermedium.
MacDisk Features
MacDisk manages the Macintosh signatures and addsa corresponding extension to the files copied from the Mac to the PC.Conversely, MacDisk gives a signature to the files copied on the Macintoshvolume to make 'double-clickable' icons. The lookup table is freely editable(with the SignEdit utility).
MacDisk is a low-level disk utility and not a conversion program. It doesn'tmodify the contents of the files (to avoid yet another source of problems). Itis bundled with MacText, a little text converteraimed at some Macintosh text formats.
Cross-Platform Compatibility
Most big applications existing on both platforms open the files created onthe other platform. That is, Word for Windows opens Word Mac files. This holdstrue also for Excel, PageMaker, Xpress and many others. See ourHints & Tips for more information about convertingand transferring data files between Macintosh and PC.
Font Transfers
From version 4.5, MacDisk offers certain features to transfer and convertfont files between the Macintosh and the PC.
How to Buy MacDisk?
To Go Further..
- Download a demo package to check yourself whatthe program may do for you
- Testimonials Page (a few sentences may say itbetter than thousand words..
